Marine Returns to First Home in Support of Cobra Gold

PATTAYA, THAILAND

01.30.2009

Staff Sgt. Siriporn Nakphinphat, right, administration chief for Marine Corps Base Camp S.D. Butler, Okinawa, Japan, stands beside a fruit vender in Pattaya, Thailand Jan. 3 as she holds rambutan fruit, which happens to be her favorite fruit. She came to Thailand in support of Exercise Cobra Gold 2009, a joint and combined exercise focused on maintaining and improving military interoperability among its participants.